xix, 745 p. : 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Introduction / Peter Linehan and Janet L. Nelson -- 2. Courts in East and West / Jonathan Shepard -- 3. At the Spanish frontier / Peter Linehan -- 4. Muslims in Christian Iberia, 1000-1526 : varieties of Mudejar experience / David Nirenberg -- 5. How many medieval Europes? : the "pagans" of Hungary and regional diversity in Christendom / Nora Berend -- 6. Christians, barbarians and monsters : the European discovery of the world beyond Islam / Peter Jackson -- 7. The Establishment of medieval Hermeticism / Charles Burnett -- 8. What the Crusades meant to Europe / Christopher Tyerman -- 9. The Crusades and the persecution of the Jews / J.A. Watt -- 10. Strange eventful histories : the Middle Ages in the cinema / Stuart Airlie -- 11. Political rituals and political imagination in the medieval West from the fourth century to the eleventh / Philippe Buc -- 12. Modern mythologies of medieval chivalry / Dominique Barthélemy -- 13. The unique favour of penance : the church and the people, c.800-c.1100 / Sarah Hamilton -- 14. Gender negotiations in France during the Middle Ages : the literary evidence / Linda Paterson -- 15. Symbolism and medieval religious thought / David d'Avray -- 16. Sexuality in the Middle Ages / Ruth Mazo Karras -- 17. Sin, crime and the pleasures of the flesh : the medieval Church judges sexual offences / James Brundage -- 18. Through a glass darkly : seeing medieval heresy / Peter Biller -- 19. The corpse in the Middle Ages : the problem of the division of the body / Agostino Paravicini Bagliani -- 20. The Crucifixion and the censorship of art around 1300 / Paul Binski -- 21. Space, culture and kingdoms in early medieval Europe / Paul Fouracre -- 22. The outward look : Britain and beyond in medieval Irish literature / Máire Ní Mhaonaigh -- 23. Powerul women in the early Middle Ages : queens and abbesses / Pauline Stafford -- 24. Perceptions of an early medieval urban landscape / Cristina La Rocca -- 25. Assembly politics in Western Europe from the eighth century to the twelfth / Timothy Reuter -- 26. Beyond the comune : the Italian city-state and its inheritance / Mario Ascheri -- 27. Timbuktu and Europe : trade, cities and Islam in "medieval" West Africa / Timothy Insoll -- 28. Medieval Law / Susan Reynolds -- 29. Rulers and justice, 1200-1500 / Magnus Ryan -- 30. The king's counsellors' two faces : a Portuguese perspective / Maria João Branco -- 31. Fullness of Power? : popes, bishops, and the polity of the Church, 1215-1517 / James Burns -- 32. A new legal cosmos : late Roman lawyers and the early medieval church / Caroline Humfress -- 33. Medieval monasticism / Janet L. Nelson -- 34. Aspects of the early medieval peasant economy as revealed in the Polyptych of Prüm / Yoshiki Morimoto -- 35. Privilege in medieval societies from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, or, How the exception proves the rule / Alain Boureau -- 36. What did the twelfth-century Renaissance mean? / Jacques Le Goff -- 37. The English parish and its clergy in the thirteenth century / C.H. Lawrence -- 38. Everyday life and elites in the later Middle Ages : the civilised and the barbarian / Gábor Klaniczay -- 39. On 1500 / Elizabeth A.R. Brown

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